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Re: Re: Re: Re: Ciel
No winter lettuce, but my nasturtium bloomed!
posted by
Ciel
on January 9, 2014 at 10:57 AM
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Re: C.C.T.
Goodness Bill that's a worry, I hope you don't have to go down there. Your Icy weather is coming here so maybe you will get a respite.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 9, 2014 at 8:50 AM
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Re: Re: Re: Ciel
Of course Ciel that is nice for the residents. Not many views around here . Although one house is sometimes knocked down to make make room for three or four. A lot of the old council houses had massive gardens, as the family relied on it for subsistence. I don't suppose you grow a lot of winter lettuce.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 9, 2014 at 8:46 AM
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Re: Re: Ciel
There's quite a well-developed citadel inside Cheyenne Mountain, where NORAD lived a while, I think they've moved out by now.
In Colorado Springs there are ordinances and height limitations to prevent builders to obscure the views.
posted by
Ciel
on January 9, 2014 at 8:21 AM
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C.C.T.
☂My pump’s off today, going to 32. Pray the basement doesn’t flood sir. And that Mrs. Sun will understand the operation of constant running and resting it and that she’ll understand there’s a lot of water and more coming down there when I leave it on all day tomorrow. And for her niece to appreciate the results of the noise. And let it be low Lord-Lambi and Josie. 
BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on January 9, 2014 at 7:36 AM
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Re: Taps
Well the devil can't get in my workshop, Taps I can hardly get in there myself.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 9, 2014 at 12:01 AM
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Re: Jimmy
A dollar is .61 pounds Jimmy so you can see we would regard the house price as cheap.Sadly low interest rates have pushed house prices up and we have seen it before once rates increase there will be a sad consequence. Yes I get the picture the trees on the mountain kept it all stable. Nature holds a delicate balance.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 8, 2014 at 11:58 PM
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Re: We've had 13" of snow here, and there are drifts up against my car
Yes I expect it will be something to put up with Pat . Perhaps you should be like Kabu and invest in a small pump. You certainly don't need rain you talk in Fahrenheit I assume.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 8, 2014 at 11:39 PM
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Re: Kabu
She taught me a lot of things Kabu, but one can get addicted to one's own failings.
People are funny they come and plonk a house in front of someone else and then sweat blood if they think someome might obscure their veiw. When I had a poultry farm, houses were built about 50 feet away and then some owners complained of the noise and the aroma. The children who grew up did not notice anything odd as they did not know anything different.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 8, 2014 at 11:34 PM
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Re: Ciel
Yes Ciel but look 500 years hence. I expect a lot of folks will live underground if they want to be near the cities. There won't be many with a view to a mountain.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 8, 2014 at 11:23 PM
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Re: Jeff
And persistently in your case Jeff.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 8, 2014 at 11:18 PM
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Yes the devil you know FS.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 8, 2014 at 11:16 PM
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I would rather take a chance with the snow as well...I like how you put yourself in the poem.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 8, 2014 at 6:38 PM
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If playing it properly is no fun
the only thing to do is play it improperly
posted by
jollyjeff
on January 8, 2014 at 6:06 PM
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A dreadful idea, all the open space in this country filling up!
It's bad enough, the way cities and their suburbs are exploding out into wilderness and destroying the habitats of those that live there already. We never seem to consider the people and creatures who live someplace already, when we decide to move in and take it over. Anyway, the East Coast is pretty much filled now.
Lovely flowers!
posted by
Ciel
on January 8, 2014 at 5:44 PM
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well I do hope that when we get the Spring thaw that the pump can keep the basement dry.
Sydney housing is like the UK terribly expensive because all the new Australians want to live and work in Sydney and no one ever wants to leave...well except me.
Doesn't sound like that therapist did you much good.
posted by
Kabu
on January 8, 2014 at 4:12 PM
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We've had 13" of snow here, and there are drifts up against my car
that reach well above my knees. I shoveled most of the walk, but got tired and will get to the drift tomorrow. It's supposed to be 50 degrees here on Sunday, almost that warm on Saturday, which means there will be a lot of melting - plus it is supposed to rain. I expect to find water in my basement...
posted by
Pat_B
on January 8, 2014 at 2:18 PM
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I guess there was a natural increasing of property values everywhere! My parents bought their first home ( where I grew up ) in 1956 for $12,500. When they retired and sold it in 1992, they got $250,000! It was recently on the market again for $335,000! I don't know how people can afford them these days! 
And we have plenty of 'flood areas' over here as well, and there seems to be a fairly simple reason for their increase: deforestation! People unwisely built homes in certain valleys, and then, for some reason, proceeded to remove the bulk of the trees from the mountain sides above them. Then when a heavy rain came . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on January 8, 2014 at 1:40 PM
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Yes, yes. Keep your mind active. I've always heard that an idle mind is the devil's workshop. 
posted by
TAPS.
on January 8, 2014 at 1:04 PM
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